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A Study on Information Literacy in Social Media Age: Focusing on Redefinition, Contents and Media of Information Literacy
Place of publication | Year of publication | Collation: 
Seoul | 2013 | p. 386-406
ISBN/ISSN: 
ISSN 1225-598X
Author: 
Eui-Kyung Oh
Corporate author: 
Korean Society For Library And Information Science
Region: 
Asia and the Pacific

This study redefines information literacy (IL) and recommends its contents and media (platforms). Redefinition of IL was based on concepts such as ‘Information Literacy 2.0’, ‘Social Context’, ‘Metaliteracy’, ‘Transliteracy’, ‘Social Media Literacy’ and related researches. ‘Social Relationship’, ‘Media Convergence’, ‘Critical and Evaluative Insight on Information’ was extracted by major contents of new IL. To determine program methods, mass media’s ‘ubiquity’ was applied to the study. Some social statistics reports proved that ubiquity of social media is quite high. Finally, proposed empirical study of IL using social media by follow-up study.)

 

Resource Type: 
Research papers / journal articles
Theme: 
Media & information literacy / digital citizenship
Level of education: 
Higher education
Keywords: 
Information literacy
Social media